Changing Climate Change —5 Experts Share Truth & Possible Solutions to Save Our Planet
Forecasting the Future, Climate Change, Geoengineering and the Biggest Threats to Human Civilization
Jamais Cascio is a writer, speaker and futurist that focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future — writing mainly on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society at openthefuture.org.
“My worst-case scenario is us continuing to have short-term-track thinking.” — Jamais Cascio
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- Why we may be heading towards a 5–6 degree warmer world
- The biggest threats to humanity’s existence
- How technology and humanity intertwine and co-evolve
- Why Jamais is pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term
- Jamais’ thoughts on the cons of geo engineering
- The important but often overlooked drivers climate change
- Why Jamais forecasts rather than predicts the future
- The actual implications of autonomous driving and automation
- Why our political and economic systems are outdated and how to fix this
- Why the future may have a lot more sex and drugs
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Why Donald Trump is the Last Gasp of Fossil Fuel Driven Capitalism and How Local Communities are Reshaping the World
Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network — a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. He is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
- The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
- What happens when communities create their own currencies
- How and why we need to address climate change
- Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
- How the governments of the future are evolving today
- Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
- Where we are headed with urban farming
- Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems
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Commoditizing Complex Satellites, Creating a Renaissance of Space Tech Startups and Combatting Climate Change
Yotam Ariel is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and other innovative space startups. Bluefield use proprietary methane tracking micro-satellites & AI to provide actionable insights and valuable data for farmers maximizing crop yields, governments watching military behavior and much much more.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life
- The space tech convergence of small scale satellites
- Why methane is the new carbon dioxide
- The reason Yotam doesn’t look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson
- Why we are still a ways off from living in space
- The 80/20 way to think about climate change
- How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation
- Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned
- The reason today’s entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose
- How to start a space tech startup today — and how much it costs
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Why VCs Suck at SciFi Tech Investing and Why AI and Synthetic Biology are the Industries of the Future
Pascal Finette is Fastrack’s Executive Director and Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation. He focuses on helping change makers tackle the most intractable problems of our times.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How Pascal thinks about AI and the future of intelligence
- The exciting space technology that no one is talking about
- What happens to nation-states when humanity goes interplanetary
- How and when genetic engineering will start to impact society
- Why synthetic biology may in fact be the most exciting industry of our generation
- How tariffs and NAFTA could affect investment in Canadian startups
- Why traditional venture capital sucks for true moonshot businesses
- Why Pascal is doubtful of a Skynet situation
- Is China’s totalitarian regime a better system
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Growing Meat in a Test Tube to Feed Humanity, Combat Climate Change and Explore Outer Space
Mike Selden is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, a food startup that uses cutting-edge cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products enjoyed around the world. They are working toward a sci-fi, soon-here world where everyone has access to healthy, delectable seafood, without the environmental devastation or the health hazards of traditional fishing and aquatic farming.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The clean meat revolution and end of animal agriculture
- How Mike’s company Finless Foods is growing fish in a laboratory
- The exciting science of foodtech
- Why people need to embrace GMOs
- How agriculture is increasingly driving climate change
- Why we aren’t far off from growing usable human organs
- How hard it is to fund traditional deep tech
- Why we are entering a foodtech revolution
- How human’s will eat and thrive in space
- Why we need to start pricing pollution into our products
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